A Framework for K-12 Science Education outlines a broad set of expectations for students in science and engineering in grades K-12. These expectations will inform the development of new standards for ...

WUSTL geophysicist Michael Wysession is leading a team of scholars who are helping the nation's top science agencies develop national standards for K-12 science education. The core disciplines ...

A draft report by a commission of the National Science Board makes a number of recommendations for improving education in math, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM topics.

But science has long been given short shrift in the first few years of school. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject ...

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The standards “are going to pull together inquiry and practice, and recognize engineering for the first time,” says Ellen Ebert, a Washington state science education official. Chemical ...

The national science education standards have been the basis for state curriculum decisions, textbook publishers' new materials, and school districts' choices for professional development, says a ...

SESSION 1: What Is the Nature of Science? National Science Education Standards Addressed in Session 1. All students should develop: Abilities to do scientific inquiry • ...

National science standards likely to raise 'ruckus' ... "When I was a kid, education was memorizing and learning lots of facts — that methodology of teaching absolutely no longer makes sense.

A cohort of national science education groups is increasing efforts to lobby for educational standards that include the teaching of climate change. Motivated in part by Wyoming lawmakers who ...